Salvation By Grace

• From the 2008 Ligonier West Coast Conference
• To design a God that would rather have us do our will than Him do His will is to design a God that is not in the bible
• God did not create evil but willed that it exists
• Why does evil exist? Westminster Confession of Faith 3.1:
  • God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
  • All that God decrees and all that God providentially brings to pass is all to the praise of His glory.
  • Therefore the existence of evil in the end is to the praise of His glory
• We wouldn’t know what wrath was and we would not know what mercy was if there were no sin

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